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1. Systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word
    
2. A standard or typical example
   "he is the paradigm of good breeding"
   - prototype, epitome, image
    
3. The class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another)
   - substitution class
    
4. The generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time
   "he framed the problem within the psychoanalytic paradigm"

Derived forms: paradigms

See also: paradigmatic

Type of: category, class, example, family, inflection, inflexion [Brit], model, perspective, position, view

Encyclopedia: Paradigm